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Originally Posted by gideongallery
read the case moron
no wireless router, modem connected directly to the pc, mac address of the machine identified.
They did way more than just say ip address = proof.
btw this case is all about knocking down bogus precedent, if it was about getting jamie off they would have made all their arguements at one time, they are doing it one at a time, getting a new trial, going thru the motions (including making arguements that would have only worked in the first trial) so that they can clearly prove precedent x is responsible for overturning the conviction.
Each and every time this get retried, the RIAA has to jump thru even more hoops to get the conviction, spending more and more money each time.
make available gone because of this case
liablity for the automatic indexing of the my music folder
all the extra hoops that you now have to jump thru to prove liablity.
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What everyone seems to mis-understand is that the IP adress is only a portion of the proof.
I just read that some forty thousand lawsuits were filed, and all but two settled out of court. First off, what does this tell you? Exactly - 99.9% of those forty-thousand were guilty as sin and knew it. But in the case someone does take it to court, they can reference your IP address against a dozen other things, starting with a database of people who had accounts with one of the illegal filing sharing services, or something else.